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by venice_benice 542 days ago
interesting project; I’m not really sure how useful it is for field-specific stuff—I'm searching for “image reduction astronomy”, and it shows all sorts of related but not image-reduction work (including noise reduction which is not the same thing). I’m not really familiar with vector search enough to evaluate it well enough.

However I can give you the heads-up that the abstracts don't render well because (La)TeX is interpreted as markdown so that

    Paper~1 shows something and Paper~2 shows something else
will strikethrough the text between the tildes (whereas they are meant to be non-breaking spaces). Similarly for the backtick which makes text monospaced in the rendered output but is simply supposed to be the opening quote.
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Yes, I think vector search is tricky to navigate at times since now the onus is on the user to explain the problem well. However, you can copy paste full abstracts to get similar papers well enough.

I will fix the LaTeX rendering ASAP.

Thank you for trying out the site! Happy Holidays :D